Aerospace Data Acquisition Server

Unfortunately, I cannot share many details about this project, so there will be no pictures, code, or video. Recently, I worked directly with a major aerospace/defense company to create a server that would acquire and handle data from a large robotic manufacturing cell for advanced items destined to go outside of earth's atmosphere. I selected the hardware, designed the database, worked with internal and customer engineers to ensure compliance, deployed the hardware, and wrote/deployed the code for this server.

This clean room server could actively communicate and gather data from a Siemens PLC, Cognex machine-learning machine-vision camera hardware, robot-mounted screwdrivers, thread inspection transducers, and more. The server checks and sends the data to a local MS SQL database, as well as creates CFX messages that are relayed to a RabbitMQ broker. The server also communicates long-term alarm histories back to the Siemens PLC for displaying on the HMI.

I also worked on various other aspects of this manufacturing cell, including fully handling the Cognex machine learning inspections. I only wish I could give more details, as this was an extremely exciting project.